Nalox(ONE) WV

Welcome to Nalox(ONE) West Virginia, an opioid stewardship program for pharmacies designed by the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute and supported by the West Virginia First Foundation. Nalox(ONE) West Virginia is a program that trains pharmacists to counsel their patients at the time of an opioid (or opioid antagonist) prescription fill to gauge their risk of opioid misuse. The program offers an opioid risk assessment screening tool for pharmacists to use when counseling patients. A risk assessment value is determined at the time of interview/consultation, and the pharmacist may recommend that the patient receive naloxone with the prescription if a high risk is assessed. Naloxone is provided by the DII free of charge (if patients are unable to pay or if their insurance co-pay is cost-prohibitive). In addition to the co-dispensing of naloxone, the program allows pharmacists to provide patients with:

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• Referral to online Naloxone training

• Medical disposal kits

• Recovery resource information

• Prevention resources for WV

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Participating pharmacies will also receive at least ten ONEboxes® opioid response kits to distribute to the surrounding community upon request. You can learn more about the ONEbox® HERE.

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Benefits to participating pharmacies include the following:

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• Participating pharmacies receive $500 upon completion of the training program by pharmacists.

• Each pharmacy will receive $20 for each patient counseled through the program. Remuneration requires the pharmacy to enter data into a secure REDCap database.

Nalox(ONE) WV has been operating since April 2022 and was initially supported through both the Institute and State Opioid Response Funding.

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The success of reducing the risk of opioid overdose in West Virginia is credited to the leadership provided by pharmacists such as yourself. We thank you for your commitment to your patients, the profession, and our state, and look forward to your participation in our program.

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For additional information, please contact our Grants and Program Administrator, Micki Ruppert, at 681-205-2287, micki@wvdii.org.